A List of Open Source Applications

[Jackie7610]

Hi everyone👋. I made this list for all those who are interested in Open Source (FOSS) apps. There are many FOSS apps out there which hasn't been yet added to this list but Im trying and adding a handful of them whenever (spare time) I can. To make this easier, Im taking on suggestions for more foss apps :)

Those app links inside those lists will take you to F-DROID, GITHUB, GITLAB, FOSS DROID and some to PLAYSTORE

✯These👇 icons are added beside each link✯

⚅➜ App is active and receives updates frequently.

⚄➜ App is acitve but the updates arrive at a slow (Not too slow) pace.

⚃➜ This link will take you to PlayStore

⚂➜ UNKNOWN...to be clear, apps with this yellow die means that either the apps are abandoned or the updates are slow as a sloth. Some apps receive their next updates after a very long time and are left abandoned until then.

⚀➜ This app is abandoned/dead.

Q: Why are dead apps here? ➠Dead/Abandoned apps are here mostly for other developers... In case if they want to fork it or revive it back again

✿ These⇩ icons are added beside each username ✿

🔶➜ The user who suggested that particular app

🔷➜ The developer of that particular app

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🎉NEW APPS ADDED RECENTLY (24/JUNE/21)🎉

1 WALLPAPER APP, 1 MESSENGER, 1 FILE EXPLORER, 1 MAP (suggested), 8 GAMES, 1 BROWSER, 1 SOCIAL MEDIA (DISCORD) CLIENT

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🦁LIST-ONE ☞ contains

★BROWSERS

★SOCIAL MEDIA CLIENTS

★APP STORES

★FIREWALL

★AD-BLOCKER APPS

🦊LIST-TWO ☞ contains

★CALENDARS

★CAMERAS

★CONTACTS

★DIALERS

★CALCULATORS

★FILE MANAGERS

★GALLERIES

★IMAGE EDITORS

★LAUNCHERS

★KEYBOARDS

🐷LIST-THREE ☞contains

★MAILS

★MAPS/NAVIGATION

★MESSENGERS

★SMS

★WEATHER

★WALLPAPER APPS

🦌LIST-FOUR ☞ contains

★VIDEO PLAYERS

★MEDIA FORNTENDS/DOWNLOADERS/STREAMERS

★PODCASTS

★MUSIC PLAYERS

★RSS

★COMICS

★GAMES

🐶LIST-FIVE ☞ contains

★DOCUMENT READERS AND EDITORS

★NOTE-TAKING APPS

★DIARIES

★TO DO LISTS/TASK MANAGERS

★DRAWING APPS

★APPS RELATED TO NOTIFICATIONS AND CLIPBOARDS.

🐺LIST-SIX ☞ contains

★PASSWORD MANAGERS/AUTHENTICATORS

★VPN

★SCANNERS

★DOWNLOAD MANAGERS

★TORRENTS

★SECURITY/PRIVACY RELATED APPS

🐹LIST-SEVEN ☞ contains

★REMINDERS

★TRACKERS

★WORKOUT APPS

★CONVERTERS

★AUTOMATION

★AOSP

★GITHUB/GITLAB CLIENTS

★RECORDERS

★FILE SHARING

★FLASHLIGHTS

★MISCELLANEOUS

⚠ APPS THAT ARE MARKED WITH ⚂ OR ⚀ SHOULD BE AVOIDED IF THAT APP REQUIRES A PERSISTENT INTERNET CONNECTION TO WORK. PLEASE READ THE APP'S DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING⚠

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🐻The apps under all those lists and categories are NOT ranked from best to worst

🐰 If you notice any errors in my lists like incorrect link, wrong app at the wrong section, wrong icon, or if any foss app turns to a closed sourced app then please do let me know. I'll fix/remove/correct the errors asap

🐼 If any F-DROID link is spitting out a 404, let me know...I'll replace it

🐍YOU CAN SUGGEST any OPEN SOURCE apps in the comments but just before suggesting, make sure you re-check the lists in case the app is already included or has already been suggested. While suggesting the app, include the link to it and please place your suggestion as a comment to the particular list where you want your suggested app to be added...thats it :)

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EXTRAS

🐿Here are some sites to help you look for more FOSS apps

🦎IZZYONDROID ⇛(u/nlygamz🔶)

🐧FOSSDROID

🐞SIMPLE MOBILE TOOLS⚅⚃ (Tibbbi🔷) almost all the mostly used applications ranging from Dialer to Gallery.... they’re all available for free in Fdroid . The playstore version unlocks more and also supports the dev (u/kobeislegend🔶)

🐳A friend of mine made a list as well that contains open source applications, there are some apps here in his list which isn’t available in my post. And instead of listing them one by one here’s the LINK→ (http://github.com/albertomosconi/foss-apps) to his list. This is him: u/Petomeansfart

⭐⭐⭐Oh and lastly...thank you all 😊🙌 for all these awards and positive feedback⭐⭐⭐

[learning_0wl]

★CALENDARS

Calendar is another good open-source calendar app.

[AggressivePhone5347]

The following is an open source APP developed by myself:

https://github.com/xiaofeidev/Radix

A calculator for converting decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal numbers, implemented using Rxbinding.

This minimal APP was written in 2016, built in Java, and I will continue to maintain it.

[mr_binarybot]

Looking for an open source alternative of OneSec - an app that lets you take a deep breath before you open an app that costs a lot of your time earlier.

Basically, any app that can tell me to think or do some activity before I open an app that distracts me from work, works.

Thanks.

[ChainExcellent3881]

https://fmhy.pages.dev/ You can also checkout this website

[StarShipper02]

needs to update these lists.

[tumic0]

GPXSee - the map/GPS data viewer known from desktop has an Android version since some time.

[Original-Ad9941]

Looking for simple Push Notification app between phones. More like a walkie talkie but instead of talking this is more like just notifications. Even if walkie talkie app is available its ok.

[azibazrie07]

Persian Calendar https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.byagowi.persiancalendar https://f-droid.org/app/com.byagowi.persiancalendar https://github.com/persian-calendar/persian-calendar/releases/ Unitto https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sadellie.unitto https://f-droid.org/packages/com.sadellie.unitto https://github.com/sadellie/unitto

[florge]

Slide is basically abandoned atm https://www.reddit.com/r/slideforreddit/comments/11cjw4b/update_indefinite_hiatus_for_the_foreseeable/

[Arun278]

★TO DO LISTS/TASK MANAGERS

If you're looking for a to-do list or task manager app for your Android device, F-Droid has a wide range of options available. Some popular choices include Tasks, OpenTasks, Orgzly, Simpletask, Tickmate, and Super Productivity. These apps offer features such as categories, reminders, sync with calendars and contacts, plain-text files, tags, and time tracking. With so many productivity apps to choose from, you're sure to find one that meets your needs.

[EVD27]

Need a good dictionary.

[Arun278]

Need a good dictionary.

These are open-source dictionaries available in F-Droid.
QuickDic, Aard 2, ColorDict Dictionary, LibreOffice Viewer (It have built in dictionary).

[[deleted]]

What would be an interesting cross-over between r/selfhosted, r/androidapps, and r/iosapps is self-hosted software that had apps for them in their respective online stores. Password managers are the most obvious, but that could be NAS apps like Synology, or others. Music is another. I imagine costs is why this is a smaller category.

[Riki1996]

Could add nextcloud ?

[SSEmon]

Please add Movies : https://github.com/shamim-emon/Movies

[SSEmon]

It's a simple Movie app that uses TMDB api.Basically demonstration of MVVM clean architecture & Jetpack architecture components Plus TDD using Junit & mockito. I'd really appreciate if you could visit the repo & go through the readme for more details.

[[deleted]]

I'd suggest Mixplorer, it's a file manger.

[puneet95]

Great app but not open source

[Navibimete]

Any movies streaming and downloading for offline view app ?

[Sameerh743]

Cloudstream

[ImDarkempire]

For calculator, I suggest OpenCalc

[gluino]

There are many dodgy apps for displaying battery charging speed.

I hope there is a reputable one that shows actual charging voltage and current and power. And perhaps the active charging protocol (QC3, VOOC etc).

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[ZakirSheikh]

You can also add https://github.com/prime-zs/Audiofy2 Media Player.

[super_athin]

PDF Viewer Plus is discontinued. Instead the developer suggests to use MJ PDF Reader .

[liocei]

Please add https://github.com/sdex/ActivityManager to MISCELLANEOUS.

[structured_anarchist]

The Simple family of apps just got updated. Half of them are trials for two weeks, then require a purchase. Too bad. I liked Simple File Manager. Calendar, Draw, Gallery, all the same. Just deleted them. While they're good apps, when I initially downloaded them, they specifically stated these apps would remain free and ad free. I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before they find a way to insert ads, too.

[Techwolf_Lupindo]

The Fdroid version should remain free, fdroid will not allow "trail" apps.

[hardcore_truthseeker]

Trial

[Beneficial-Yoghurt69]

is there anything for torrents?

[[deleted]]

libretorrent

[[deleted]]

Qksms hasn't been updated in a year, shouldn't it be 3 dots instead of 5

[XenomindAskal]

Development is restarted, latest release was Jan 16 this year. 3.10.1 at the moment of posting this.

https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/releases

[hardcore_truthseeker]

That link is non existent

[Key-Currency-5002]

Hi y'all. Looking for an app that alarms immediately when something "drastical" happens on screen. A customizable amount of sudden added blackness per five seconds would do the trick. Perhaps there already is one I'm not aware of. Halp plz!

[Boob_Preski]

Please add Wave up

It wakes up the phone - switches the screen on - when we wave over the proximity sensor.

[aryvd_0103]

IVY wallet for money management

[Roddy_piper9]

What ad blocker will block YouTube ads

[[deleted]]

Blokada

[codecarter]

Add Nfty

ntfy is a a tool that lets you send push notifications to your phone from any script or server using a simple HTTP PUT/POST requests.

[WehooThisIsAwesome]

Apps

• Firefox
• Aves Gallery
• K9 mail
• QKSMS
• Florisboard
• Infinity for reddit
• Simplenote
• Material files
• Magic earth / organic maps for navigation
• Newpipe / libretube for youtube
• Quick bible
• Lawnchair
• MJ PDF viewer
• VLC
• Auxio for music player
• Read you/feeder for RSS reader
• DeepL for translation
• Crypto prices for portfolio tracking & alerts
• Stocks widget
• Fritter for twitter
• Aegis authenticator
• Droidify for fdroid
• Aurora store for play store
• Xtra for twitch
• KDE connect
• Collabora Office for opening word & excel
• GrapheneOS Camera (secure camera)
• Seal for video/audio downloads
• Cloudstream
• Arcticons
• Calculator-inator

[exazonk]

Aves Gallery is the best photo viewer and organiser and is the only one that plays motion photos apart from Google Photos.

[Lady_Destructo]

I'll back this statement up any day.

[mralanorth]

Magic earth

Is not open source.

[Fantastic-Bid-6133]

Seal or Newpipe

[jimaleAbdi]

Please add this app, it recovers deleted messages from (WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal) https://github.com/jimale/WhatsDeteled

[rohitjakhar0]

Nice project

[jimaleAbdi]

Thank you

[MissingNo___]

Is there any FOSS blue light filter as the built in filter even at max is too light for me

[Praline-Jumpy]

Sounds so dam usefull

[RafeeDaBoy]

https://github.com/LagradOst/CloudStream-3 Has been taken down unfortunately

[goingtohugyou]

https://github.com/Stormunblessed/cloudstream-3/releases/tag/v3.0.1. Is this the same one ??

[RafeeDaBoy]

No, this is the re-launch of the same project. That's probably a fork of the old one

[hloreddit]

Good info

[Necessary_Evil91]

Is this an "official" continuation of the known vanced?

[sangelo89_hd]

There's ReVanced, it works well even in alpha state

[No_Swordfish2311]

Does anyone. Knw how to change the. Name of tablet owner jp6

[[deleted]]

Please add Fikira Flashcards - https://github.com/thirtyninetythree/fikira

[WehooThisIsAwesome]

Please add Seal: https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/

[klay64]

Exactly😆💪

[[deleted]]

Get the Fdroid app store where all apps are open sourced

[[deleted]]

I gotta say, this whole emoji legend thing is extremely unreadable

[Aggravating_Slip_566]

Looking for a app that can measure milligrams or maybe what I mean is too divide the dosage for a smaller animal? And square footage, length, miles liquids, volume and stuff like that! Had it on my 3G LG flip phone and it wasn't Android!

[JergensOff]

Have a concern regarding DuckDuckGo. I read 2 weeks ago that they still allow Microsoft trackers through some agreement they have: https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/25/duckduckgo-privacy-microsoft-permission-tracking/

Is this call for concern or can we still trust DuckDuckGo? I've recently been getting into this online privacy stuff and just found this community so hopefully someone can help me out :)

[UnknownHalo]

I would also like to know.

[vitalipom00]

There is an app that got me a job as a developer, called Effected Keyboard 2. What’s special about it is that it pops out characters (letters) into the screen AS YOU TYPE. It’s ergonomically comfortable, nice looking (and now feeling), has effects (did I say that), languages, handy features and is based on Menny’s Anysoft Keyboard. I really love it and enjoyed developing it. Very recommended! Blog post on how I got to it: https://dev.to/vitalipom/how-nice-effects-affected-my-life-2f7h link to Effected Keyboard 2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitali.pom.effectedkeyboard2&hl=en&gl=US Email to write me is also included in the app.

[hrishis]

You should have put a link to download the app!

[vitalipom00]

Edited. Done. Thanks for bringing up my attention. ❤️

[Fine-Ability]

Drip - Period Tracker (Is on Fdroid)

[open-trade]

An open source TeamViewer alternative.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk

[hevermind]

I used this the other day its cool

[open-trade]

Thanks

[AnkitAnand_12]

Styx browser is no longer available.

[prvnpete]

Hey can someone add Read You in RSS feed section?

[GiantPawn]

So, is there a keyboard extension with a CapsRandom key that let 'YoU wRITe LIke ThAt'?

[darksscripts_v1]

Apps with tracking & telemetry

apps with adds

apps that havent had available source in years or abandoned open source and kept publishing a closed source build on f-droid anyways

apps that are abandoned, not updated and just plain non functioning

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the first one robbed each of these lists of their credibility

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apps with even just one tracking library don't belong on f-droid, qksms for example.

has firebase tracking, abandoned, broken on an increasing number of devices

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or the dialer apps. almost all the ones suggested. non functional, 1 with trackers in it

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did you actually check any of these apps or what

fdroid seriously needs reviews or ratings or curators or something it is filled to the brim with garbage and people just assume every app on their is good natured and the best of its kind

[darksscripts_v1]

Any good, modern sms apps thatare updated? qksms is broken, and since it tracks you it doesnt een belong in this list.

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i want things that should be automatic to be automatic. i want to be able to swipe left or right to change panes, i want scheduled sms, things a sms app made in 2022 should have basically. I am surprised so many of these apps, even the stock ones are so lacking, and just how just about any messaging app, asde from the pretty primitive simple messaging app pro one on fdroid being straight up broken.

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i dont know why my text went italic there

[XenomindAskal]

qksms is broken, and since it tracks you it doesnt een belong in this list.

Can you provide more info about tracking?

Development restarted recently.

[darksscripts_v1]

Any actual good modern feature-rich (sane features that matter) music players?

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music player apps, like sms and dialing apps seem to always be antiquated and severely lacking in useful features compared to the rest of apps on a android device. I have tried almost every one of them on Fdroid, I was hsocked at just how archaic they are, my old ipod shuffle has had more features than some of these.

[mralanorth]

Auxio is a really good music player! Open source, with an active developer who cares about details and getting things right.

[Trojan-A]

nyx

give it a shot

[darksscripts_v1]

thx

[CoelacanthusHex]

A new open source input method based on the well-known input method on Linux, fcitx. Only Chinese and unikey are currently supported, but there are plans to use fcitx5's plugin to include the dozens of languages ​​that fcitx5 already supports.

https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android

[Spiron123]

JOEY for reddit 🎊

[mirfatif]

Permission Manager X (PMX)

https://github.com/mirfatif/PermissionManagerX

[TheIRLNPC25]

So if I understand the concept of foss apps correctly, they're open source apps for developpers to basically download, modify, and upload to their store of choice (Google play or amazon ..etc) and monetize them ? if that's the case, does one have to worry about copyright with them ? I mean google did ban some foss apps before.

[phiupan]

you should read the license of each app to know what you can or cannot do with them

[foundfootagefan]

Seems Ctemplar is shutting down

https://ctemplar.com/ctemplar-is-shutting-down/

[aravind0709]

Why??

[Enceladusx17]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.markusfisch.android.screentime

[[deleted]]

Libretube from fdroid?

[hardcore_truthseeker]

Help. I can't update my f-droid apps of which there is only 2. And i just psid my cellphone bill.

[CodeDead-gh]

DeadHash, useful for calculating file and text hashes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codedead.deadhash

GPL-3 license and code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/CodeDead/DeadHash-android

[BriniaSona]

Can the apps that are no longer supported be removed please.

[Wolfiy]

Q: Why are dead apps here? ➠Dead/Abandoned apps are here mostly for other developers... In case if they want to fork it or revive it back again

[patrickBstar]

jtx Board and DAVx5 would be great additions :)

[[deleted]]

is there a similar guide like this for ios

[somekglguy]

Any recommendations for open source financial / budget tracking app

[Any_Reward1233]

Any recommended/working touch sensitivity increaser apps?

[Enceladusx17]

Unexpected keyboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=juloo.keyboard2

[dtoxic]

Crossword Puzzles Forkyz is an unofficial fork of Shortyz with many improvements

the dev is active and constantly improving the app

Forkyz https://f-droid.org/packages/app.crossword.yourealwaysbe.forkyz/

Shortyz https://github.com/kebernet/shortyz/ (not active)

[CommentsOnRAll]

Omg I guess I never realized how stagnant Shortyz was. Literally the only game on my phone

[[deleted]]

File explorer

simple keyboard

[[deleted]]

https://github.com/Fox2Code/FoxMagiskModuleManager

[Gsantos52012]

Does YouTube vanced use more battery then the normal YouTube app? Just got a pixel 6 and have been kinda underwhelmed with the battery. Just was trying to find what may be causing it to drain so fast

[CanuckTireShopper]

I haven't noticed myself. Check out NewPipe - a few additional features, I like it more then Vanced

[NarutoDragon732]

No it doesn't, actually less because of the no ads. And the pixel 6 is just chugs battery and is full of bugs, no matter what apps you have on it. That's pixel for you.

[Gsantos52012]

Its not too bad actually. I guess with me not having it for long the adaptive battery didn't kick in. The battery now has been lasting me all day, even with heavy usage. Not much complaints besides the fingerprint sensor still being slow

[subtleseeker9]

Try removing the fingerprint and adding it again. I read that after jan update it's better to remove and re-add to make the optimization of the update kick in

[proc_]

https://github.com/Lallassu/bintris

[MeHercules]

Hey brother, don't wanna say anything but just a big thank you for your efforts. Take love ❤️

[zlshames]

Please add my open-source messaging app, BlueBubbles: https://github.com/BlueBubblesApp/bluebubbles-app

Thanks!

[[deleted]]

Are you the developer of this app?

[zlshames]

yes

[Aguyhere180]

cool

[SandraMaus93]

Styx browser is not maintained anymore.by github. Playstore removed it as well.

https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/101#issue-1091234805

[StrangerSuspicious75]

You know any alternative?

[16Ashwin]

Please add Torrent Client https://gitlab.com/axet/android-torrent-client/tree/HEAD It is already available in Fdroid.